Lifelog

To earn $5,000 monthly, I need:

50 people to pay $100/month
100 people to pay $50/month
200 people to pay $25/month
500 people to pay $10/month 👈
1000 people to pay $5/month
5000 people to pay $1/month

Breaking it down in terms of actions:

$60k/year
… $5k/month
… $1250/week
… $166.66/day
… 10 people buy the $120 lifetime plan per week
… or 17 people sign up on the $10/m plan per day
… 1000-1700 views per day @ 1% conversion rate (assumed)

So my job now is to generate 1700 daily views ... 🤔

OK so this seems to be how the various packages should work on a high level:

* timezone detection - packages like jstz, moment.timezone.guess() to detect the tz of the user. These packages usually tap on the javascript Intl API
- Intl.DateTimeFormat.prototype.resolvedOptions()
* timezone library - a library of timezone offsets based on real world data (timezones are a mess, with daylight savings and all). This library would take the tz from the tx detection package, and pass on the offset needed calculate streaks
* streaks - calculate streaks data based on array of tz dates (I use date-streaks npm package)

Learned something new today! I can actually v-bind a class attribute using the template literals `${ }`

:class="`is-${consideredFeature.typeColor}`"

After some research and discussion with Abe, I think I know what went wrong with the streak mechanism. The npm `date streaks` package never calculated streaks based on timezones! Everything is in UTC +00 (as per recommended best practice of saving timestamps in databases). If users had very predictable routines of writing, it was still fine, but if someone wrote close to the end of their timezone windows, that might already be the next day in UTC time (thus broken streak). Need to look for a package that has a library of timezone offset rules to twin with my date streaks package, and perhaps another one too to detect user's timezone without user having to explicitly set it.

Felt like I made a mini-app within an app! Made this in 2 days - tabs for different upcoming features categories, with feature lists under each tab. Also added a few placeholders for upcoming features: upvote button, individual feature pages with comments threads for only logged in users.

Researched other feedback/roadmap tools, was either pricey (Canny.io) or didn't fit what I needed (Trello). So decided to make my own!

Created the roadmap page, since everyone is asking about it while giving feedback. 4 tabs - considering, planned, developing, launched. Each tab will have a list of features in card/box format, with future features like upvoting button, and comments thread upon click through to read/comment/discuss.

In 2021, I want to see if I can…

💵 Financial: Hit $5k MRR from all my products by 31 Dec 2021, through consistency rather than intensity.

⚒ Material: Give more, give away more.

🌲 Living: Sleep better, move more (& in nature).

💡 Intellectual: Follow my dev nose.

💪 Experiential: Look for 1% improvement every week. Just 1%, 1 thing, 1 task, 1 idea.

👥 Social: Quality conversations and relationships, local and global.

🎨 Cultural: Changing lanes (and identity) to geek/dev subculture.

⛩ Spiritual: Fatherhood that’s mindful and present.

Fixed it by manually changing the date of her last post in the database itself. Looks like there might be timezone issues...? Unsure at this point. Could be due to the switch over to using just dates instead of timestamptz via the SQL Date() function. Will have to continue monitoring...

I know this means nothing and users will churn, but HELL YEAAAHHHHHH my first MRR dollar! 🍻

Ending this crummy year with a highlight from my #decodingcoding journey - my very first SaaS!

Lifelog is a platform to write everyday towards your goals. Having wrote daily for 2 years straight, I’m a big believer in the power of writing to think, plan, imagine and realising your goals. Those who are revving up for a change in 2021 with ambitious goals, start here:

https://golifelog.com

I spent 3 months on this... coding the functionality bit by bit, realising it can actually work, and then design-developing the writing UI from zero. I’d not worked this hard on a software product before, but pleased with how much fun I had learning new programming languages/frameworks as I go, and how it turned out in the end.

The best part, I’m making a tool for myself as I continue my daily words after this break. It’s kinda freeing to know that, even if no one else uses this tool, it’ll still be useful to one user (ie me!). But of course, I’m banking on the fact that there’s more folks like me out there who enjoying writing, thinking and achieving. 😎

For the tech-savvy, my tech stack is Nuxt.js/Vue.js + Bulma on frontend, and a headless CMS/API builder called Strapi (based on Node.js) on backend, all hosted on Heroku.

Cloudflare is awesoommmmme! Heroku allows for free custom domain but not SSL, so Cloudflare to the rescue. Cloudflare even has apps like welcome bar, secuity, chat, that you can 1-click install. Fascinating how they can do that without the user having to embed any script or install packages.

Tried Netlify prerendering but didn't seem to help much with Lighthouse scores...anyone had a similar/different experience?

Records updated and propagated in record time, in 1-2h!!! Netlify is niiiice